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A stem-cell repair system that can regenerate any kind of human tissue ...including disease and aging; human trials next year April 6, 2016 [image: The UNSW researchers said the therapy has enormous potential for treating spinal disc injury and joint and muscle degeneration and could also speed up recovery following complex surgeries where bones and joints need to integrate with the body (credit: UNSW TV)] A stem cell therapy system capable of regenerating any human tissue damaged by injury, disease, or aging could be available within a few years, say University of New South Wales (UNS...mais »

Predicting Longevity May Be Simpler Than ThoughtStudy found age-related changes in DNA were not as accurate as factors such as age and mobility By Robert Preidt Thursday, April 7, 2016 [image: HealthDay news image] THURSDAY, April 7, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Testing the length of the ends of your DNA strands may not be the best predictor of how long you will live, a new study suggests. Instead, simpler measures that include your age and your ability to climb stairs or walk a short distance may more accurately pinpoint longevity, researchers report. The study team analyzed death r...mais »

[image: Beat Diabetes illustration — Copyright: World Health Organization (WHO), 2016. All Rights Reserved] *Beat Diabetes:* current situation of the epidemic, and how prevention and education can help to improve it. From The Lancet: *View this article* Trends in diabetes: sounding the alarm Etienne G Krug[image: email] Published Online: 06 April 2016

[image: God Hed] BY LILY ROTHMAN [image: Is God DeadCover] DON HAMILTON REMEMBERS THE DAY WELL. THIS WAS BACK IN 1966. HE WAS 12 WHEN A CLASSMATE ASKED HIM THE QUESTION: “DOES YOUR FATHER THINK THAT GOD IS DEAD?” HAMILTON HAD TO ADMIT THAT THE ANSWER WAS YES. Before long, another friend’s grandmother had started lobbying to have his father, William Hamilton, who was then a professor at Colgate Rochester Divinity School in Rochester, N.Y, fired. Rather than going to church, the family started doing Bible reading at home, on their own. Eventually, they left Rochester. There was no way t...mais »

[image: New Clues Show Out-of-Control Synapse Pruning May Underlie Alzheimer's] NEUROLOGICAL HEALTH New Clues Show Out-of-Control Synapse Pruning May Underlie Alzheimer's A study in mice shows that the normal process by which the brain prunes excess synapses during development may be hijacked early on in the progression of Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases arch 31, 2016 — Jordana Cepelewicz

The Human Brain Project asks wider neuroscience community to start using its hardware and software - By Quirin Schiermeier, Alison Abbott, Nature magazine on April 1, 2016 - - *tty Images/iStockphoto * * Europe’s major brain-research project has unveiled a set of prototype computing tools and called on the global neuroscience community to start using them. The move marks the end of the 30-month ramp-up phase of the Human Brain Project (HBP), and the start of its operational phase.* The release of the computing platforms—which include brain-simul...mais »

Volume 387, No. 10022, p943, 5 March 2016 Correspondence Chronic diseases—the social justice issue of our time Nalini Saligram[image: email] , Rachel Nugent [image: Article has an altmetric score of 13]Article Info - Summary - Full Text - References With his recent commentary, Richard Horton (Dec 12, p 2378)1 created a much-needed jolt in the non-communicable disease (NCD) community. We agree with many of the points Richard Horton raised. NCDs are complex, and fighting them is our generation's greatest challenge. That same complexity demands that progress be at a less than bl...mais »

The five most important graphs from these Panama Papers leaks WRITTEN BY Aamna Mohdin - April 04, 2016 It’s being described as the “*biggest leak in history*.” Over 11 million confidential documents were released from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, which has been described as the world’s fourth-largest provider of offshore services. The documents were obtained by an anonymous source who contacted German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, which worked with other papers and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists to go through the data. The leak shows how the ...mais »

PLANTS AND ANIMALSThe Ancestor Of Malaria May Have Once Infected Dinosaurs March 31, 2016 | by Josh L Davis photo credit: The oldest record of the malaria parasite Plasmodium is thought to be in 20-million-year-old amber. George Poinar, Jr., courtesy of Oregon State University The evolutionary origin of the malaria parasite may be older than anyone thought. A new analysis of a 100-million-year-old insect preserved in amber shows evidence for the oldest ancestral strain of malaria, meaning it likely infected not just the ancestors of mammals, but dinosaurs too. The research is based ...mais »

Largest network of cortical neurons mapped from ~100 terabytes data set April 1, 2016 [image: A network of cortical neurons whose connections were traced from a multi-terabyte 3D data set. The data were created by an electron microscope designed and built at Harvard Medical School to collect millions of images in nanoscopic detail, so that every one of the “wires” could be seen, along with the connections between them. Some of the neurons are color-coded according to their activity patterns in the living brain. This is the newest example of functional connectomics, which combines high...mais »

Here’s Why Uncertainty Makes You So Miserable - Alexandra Sifferlin @acsifferlin March 29, 2016 Knowing something bad is coming is more bearable than uncertainty People like to know what’s coming for them, even if it’s bad, a new study suggests. A small study published Tuesday found that people are more stressed out when there is the possibility they will experience discomfort as opposed to when they knew for sure something bad is coming. In the study, published in the journal *Nature Communications*, people were shown a bunch of rocks and were asked to guess whether a snake...mais »